Article: PREPS; a week in the life of farmington tigers football; In Farmington, football is important - but so is chance for kids to be kids; The home of the Tigers straddles the fence as athletic programs go, as either a small big school or a big small school. The trick is trying to preserve the best of both worlds.(SPORTS)(John Millea)

Byline: John Millea; Staff Writer

Farmington, as I learned last week, is an unlikely powerhouse in Class 5A football. And that's the beauty of it.

Photographer Renee Jones Schneider and I began chronicling high school sports, one week at a time, in January 2004. We traveled the state and reported on winter sports in Lancaster, Hibbing, Glencoe, Pierz, Mankato and Minneapolis. During the spring season last May we went to Virginia, Stewartville, Brandon, Eagan and Winona.

With little time elapsing between last spring's "Week in the Life" and this installment, we wanted to change the pattern and concentrate on one team. Enter the Farmington Tigers. While spending ...

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